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...good results" in getting the Palestinians to comply with their obligations in the Middle East peace process, Netanyahu conspicuously rolled his eyes. Later, as the Prime Minister forcefully advanced the case for a hard line with Syria, Clinton stood a half step back from his podium and locked a gaze on Netanyahu. To experienced Clinton body linguists, it was a look of grudging admiration and recognition, one media-savvy politician acknowledging the skills of another...
...which noon-strength sun gnaws, leeching color from sails, crumbling villas and driving everyone pretty much mad. Most disconcerting, certainly, are the mesmerizing eyes of Alain Delon, who, as the poor but desperate Tom, is able to manipulate men, women, and, of course, the audience, with his cocainepure blue gaze...
...seems to thaw out in her husband's presence, and there is sweetness in their silent campaign interplay. Coming off the campaign plane two weeks ago in Birmingham, Alabama, she grabbed his arm and made him gaze for a moment at the spectacular red sunset on the horizon. At the end of a long day, she kneads his shoulders, rubs his arm in encouragement, shoots him a supportive smile. Dole, the good Midwesterner, is allergic to public displays of affection--except from his Elizabeth. They seem to share a secret code of gestures: Elizabeth pats him on the lower back...
...thunders down the runway with the zeal of a mounted hussar about to drive his lance through a peasant yeoman, people are apt to do strange things. Things one wouldn't expect them to do. Things one might call downright ... unnatural. Like the three frat brothers who wrench their gaze away from the bikini-clad strumpets draped over the first-deck seats to train their binoculars on the vault pit. Or the women heading for the video monitor, who have just abandoned places in the rest-room line they have been holding for 30 minutes. Or the enterprising youngsters pelting...
...chair upholstered in floral chintz. Painted darkly in homage to Manet and preceded by some of the most beautiful head studies in Cezanne's early work, it depicts the stunted Emperaire as a parody king, an "emperor," but with compassion; no mere caricatural impulse could account for the averted gaze and the great, sad, liquid eyes...